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This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts review the biggest movie of the year! Zootopia 2 picks up right where the first one left off. Judy Hopps is the first bunny cop in Zootopia, and reformed criminal Nick Wilde is the first fox cop, and Hopps' new partner. After busting Mayor Bellweather in the first movie, Hopps and Wilde are on an ambitious streak of overachieving, and starting to get s...

It's time for the long-awaited episode 8 of Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in an elimination bracket to determine who will walk away the greatest director of the last 27 years! In the last episode , we saw a clash of titans with Apichatpong Weerasethakul vs. Ava DuVernay, both with a film about how the sins of the past i...

This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts talk about the winner of the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival! Sentimental Value reunites director Joachim Trier with star Renate Reinsve to tell the story of Nora, a Norwegian theatre actress in the middle of a bold new production of Hamlet whose life is thrown into disarray by the reappearance of her film director father, Gustav (Stellan...

It's part two of our series on Frankenstein this week on Classic Movies Live! In the previous episode , Pierre and Jeff talked about James Whale's 1930s films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein . This week, our hosts are back to discuss an adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic that goes in a very different direction. Starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein sees...

This week on Classic Movies Live, our hosts talk about one of the buzziest movies from this year's Sundance Film Festival, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You ! The sophomore feature from director Mary Bronstein -- her first following 2008's Yeast -- If I Had Legs follows a psychotherapist named Linda as her life rapidly falls apart around her. Already stressed while dealing with her daughter's special nee...

Happy Halloween and welcome to Classic BOO-vies Live! On this week's episode, our hosts talk about one of the most influential horror film duologies of all time: Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein . If you haven't seen either of these... well, you've probably seen more than you think! Pierre and Jeff talk about seeing Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's monster on screen for the first time, and fina...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts talk about the directorial debut of Aziz Ansari! In Good Fortune , Ansari stars as Arj, a down-on-his-luck gig worker barely making ends meet in LA. When Arj meets Jeff (Seth Rogen), a millionaire venture capitalist with an easy life, things briefly start to look up as he becomes Jeff's permanent assistant... only to take a turn when Jeff lets him go af...

Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? On today's episode of Classic Movies Live! , we're once again reviewing a film featuring the incomparable Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! Last discussed in our episode about S03E55 – Black Adam three years ago, Johnson is positioning himself for a comeback as a "serious actor" with a starring role in a film by one of the Safdie Brothers, chronicling three years i...

It's that time of year again! This week, our hosts are back with the annual episode devoted to the one, the only Leonardo DiCaprio! This time, we're losing it over Leo's first ever collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another ! Very loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland," One Battle stars Leo as Bob Ferguson, an aging revolutionary thrust back into the crosshairs o...

TIFF turns 50, so now we're saying... TIFFTY! If you were wondering where we were over the last few weeks, well, we went to the fiftieth iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival! This year hosted over 250 movies, and Jeff tried to see as many as he could! As you'll hear, he got way further towards that goal than he probably should have... In this episode of Classic Movies Live! , our h...

This week on Classic Movies Live... Darren Aronofsky! Our hosts re-encounter the renowned director with his latest film, Caught Stealing ! Featuring an all-star cast including Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Regina King, and Liev Schreiber, Caught Stealing represents a bit of a departure for Aronofsky. Unlike the deeply metaphorical mother! (which our hosts tackled in an episode of Directo...

Founded in 1975, the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates 50 years this September! The 50th festival includes big titles like The Smashing Machine , Blue Heron , Mile End Kicks , and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You . And that's not all! TIFF50 boasts over 250 films showing on King Street over 11 days! Are you going to TIFF this year? Well, Jeff is! And joining the show today are two other cre...

Director Showdown turns 7 episodes old today! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in an elimination bracket to determine who will walk away the greatest director of the last 26 years! In the last episode , we looked into Joanna Hogg and Jason Reitman's approach to autobiographical -- or semi-autobiographical -- filmmaking. How each artist explo...

Nearly three years ago, our hosts discussed the solo debut feature of Zach Cregger, formerly of The Whitest Kids U Know. Breaking slightly from his comedy roots, Barbarian was one of the best -- but also funniest -- horror films of 2022. Cregger's followup, the cryptically-named Weapons , might just be scarier... and funnier. On this episode of Classic Movies Live , Pierre and Jeff discuss Weapons...

So far in 2025, our hosts have had a bit of a rough year. Between several superhero movies that don't quite meet expectations, nothing has truly stood out and stolen the hearts of Pierre and Jeff. Until this weekend, that is. This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts take on not one, but two movies! First up, we're talking about Dave Franco and Alison Brie's relationship, specifically in the con...

The final Classic Movie of July 2025 is Fantastic Four: First Steps ! Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star in a 60's-inspired, alternate universe take on Marvel's First Family. The fourth adaptation of the Fantastic Four, First Steps sees Reed Richards welcome a new baby while he and his family fend off Galactus, the Eater of Worlds. This is the final MCU film of...

This week, Jeff takes the show on the road! Jeff and festival correspondent Robert are in Montreal for the first week of the 29th Fantasia Film Festival! Featuring a range of films from all over the world, Fantasia has more than established itself as the go to festival in Canada for horror, anime, and lower-budget indies you might not see anywhere else! It's also a major festival early into film f...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic movie... live! This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts discuss the long-awaited follow-up to Black Adam : James Gunn's Superman ! Continuing the story of the DC Universe that began with Blue Beetle , Peacemaker , and Creature Commandos , Superman takes place 3 minutes after the big blue boy scout loses his very first fight. Superman soon finds himself...

It's summer here at Classic Movies Live! , and that means it's time for big tentpole movies! In this episode, we're talking about two of the year's biggest action movies, both starring Shea Whigham! To start off, our hosts discuss Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning . If this is to be the last Mission Impossible movie, how is the series going out? Is McQ and Tom Cruise's latest collaboration a...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts are talking about Stephen King! An unbelievably prolific writer, King has produced dozens of novels and even more short stories, several of which have gone on to become some of the most iconic films of all time. The Shining , The Shawshank Redemption , Stand By Me , and who could forget Gerald's Game ? In the first half of the year of our lord 2025, tw...

It's Franchise Movie May, and our hosts are back with another absolute heater of a sequel! A movie 14 years in the making, Final Destination: Bloodlines resurrects the turn of the century horror series with another entry that will make you afraid of everything from trampolines to rotating doors! In Bloodlines , a woman avoids a deadly premonition, saving dozens -- maybe even hundreds -- of lives,...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts talk about the latest Marvel movie, in which a lovable group of ne'er-do-wells team up to do good, instead of evil. Black Widow, The Sentry, Ghost, John Walker, Red Guardian, and Taskmaster: together, they're part of a team that shares a name with the in-universe president of the United States (but officially isn't named after him), the Thunderbolts* !...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts lock in to talk about the latest from Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever : Sinners ! Set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, Sinners has it all: Blues music! Irish jigs! War veterans! Vampires! It's part horror movie, part musical, part period drama. Michael B Jordan stars twice! Sinners is a movie truly filled to bursting with i...

And we're back! After a well-deserved break, Pierre and Jeff are back to share their thoughts on the new Christopher Landon movie: Drop ! In Drop , Meghann Fahy plays Violet, a widow on her first date in years with a handsome, mild-mannered photojournalist. But things quickly go sideways when Violet starts receiving threatening memes via DigiDrop (a legally-distinct AirDrop alternative). Someone h...

There's only a few days left until the 97th Oscars, so on this special episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts are taking two more Best Picture nominees! From Brazil, I'm Still Here tells the story of Eunice Paiva, a human rights lawyer and mother of five whose husband is disappeared during the Brazilian dictatorship in 1970. Fernanda Torres gives a commanding performance as Paiva, whose memor...